ESPN recently updated their ESPN 100 high school rankings for the 2024 class, and future Tar Heel Drake Powell was shown a lot of love by their analysts. Powell is now the 12th-best player in the country according to their rankings, the third-best player at his position, and is the second-best player in the state of North Carolina. ESPN previously had him as a four-star player ranked 34th, so he made quite leap from the last time they updated their rankings.
Powell turned a lot of heads this summer during AAU play. We all expected to hear quite a bit about Ian Jackson, but Powell’s name came out of the mouths of recruiting analysts across the country quite a bit.